118 Quotes by vince staples

I think I'm pretty regular. I try to keep it pretty regular; I go to sleep early. I don't know what distances me from other rap artists - I haven't met a lot of 'em.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

When I was a kid if you didn't have "Lil" in front of your name, you were trash.

The police are very mean people sometimes.

That's something that I've always gotten: a sense of humanity, a sense of awareness of yourself and the world around you.

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

One of my younger homies, he went to jail, and some people came to me and were like, "Bail him out," and I said no. Why would I bail him out? He's going to prison. Let him sit and get some time served. You want to be crazy, but you don't want to go to jail. You want to shoot people, but you don't want to kill people. That's such a misleading thing.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.